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Tuesday Jun 30, 2015 #
7 PM
paddling (kayak) 1:10:46 7.6 km (9:18 / km)
Merrimack with Nancy, downstream from Tyngsborough Campground to the boat ramp near my office. After a bit of rain in the late afternoon, it turned out to be a beautiful evening, with a nice sunset, a full moon rising, and the clouds cleared so we could see the 0.3 degree conjunction of Venus and Jupiter.
Monday Jun 29, 2015 #
8 PM
running (woods) 44:47 [3] 6.03 km (7:26 / km) +100m 6:51 / km
shoes: Saucony Grid Adapt
In The Dim. Glad I got out and did something, but honestly, I felt like crap. Went in the old way so as to avoid the poison ivy. The brook was high, so finding a crossing took a little time, and I had some trouble working my way from there up to the Enigma Road. Definitely glad I didn't do the longer loop. Kind of strange sensation at one point when it was brighter in a hemlock grove than in the deciduous woods.
Sunday Jun 28, 2015 #
Note
Since I didn't go out to Idaho, the orienteering opportunity this weekend was Ahern, but due to exorbitant permit fees, Jim Arsenault sort of cancelled it, changing it to an unofficial streamers-only non-event, but he sad he'd leave the streamers up all summer, and a cold, rainy day wasn't sufficiently inviting for me to go all the way up there. So the ten-weekend streak comes to an end.
Wednesday Jun 24, 2015 #
7 PM
running (trails) 1:03:51 [3] 8.91 km (7:10 / km) +142m 6:38 / km
shoes: Saucony Grid Adapt
Unexpected pleasure. I went through my mental schematic map of Willard Brook and came up with a loop that I thought would be pleasing. The Pearl Hill parking lot was open, and I hadn't even remembered my wallet to pay the fee, so I found somewhere else to leave the car. I thought there was a way onto the trail network by the lake, but there wasn't, so I went back to the place where I usually cross the road, and on the way found the place where the park staff apparently dump deer carcasses (very smelly skeletons). Then I started on my loop, but at the top of the hill I decided to make a little variation on what I was expecting to be a short connector trail, but which was actually the entry to a space-filling curve of singletrack that started out mellow and got increasingly technical, through a feature-rich hillside. There were other side trails that are yet to be explored. Unlikely that I ever would have spotted the lower end of this. The next trail was heading for a back yard, so I went through a little meadow, then through the woods to another trail that I knew, back to the campground, and back toward the car. Nice night to be out. I also went by a young porcupine, and if I'd been wearing a sticky blue hat, I would have picked up a few victims.
11 PM
Note
I'll be damned -- I looked at my route with the OOM-O, and it looks like the MTB crowd has put in the trails, and they match my GPS track quite well.
Tuesday Jun 23, 2015 #
Note
I can remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when I met some of my friends. A few examples:
I met Charlie DeWeese at Northfield Mountain, near the end of the Billygoat in 1984, when we had both already gone overtime.
I met Dana Glow in Health class in 7th grade, fall of 1974, when we were supposed to pick a classmate we didn't know and introduce ourselves.
I met Hutch just before the mass start of a Long-O at Saylor Park.
I met Guppy Youngren when I walked into a lab at MIT and he was sitting on an old car seat that was being used as a couch.
I met Eric Weyman on Sunday of the US Champs in 1987 when he came up to me and said he liked my Grateful Dead bumper sticker.
And 20 years ago today, I was handing out meet packets for the 1000-Day at the Lake George picnic shelter until the registrar could get there, and I met Nancy.
I met Charlie DeWeese at Northfield Mountain, near the end of the Billygoat in 1984, when we had both already gone overtime.
I met Dana Glow in Health class in 7th grade, fall of 1974, when we were supposed to pick a classmate we didn't know and introduce ourselves.
I met Hutch just before the mass start of a Long-O at Saylor Park.
I met Guppy Youngren when I walked into a lab at MIT and he was sitting on an old car seat that was being used as a couch.
I met Eric Weyman on Sunday of the US Champs in 1987 when he came up to me and said he liked my Grateful Dead bumper sticker.
And 20 years ago today, I was handing out meet packets for the 1000-Day at the Lake George picnic shelter until the registrar could get there, and I met Nancy.
Monday Jun 22, 2015 #
paddling (kayak) 1:19:53 [1] 6.39 km (12:30 / km)
On the Concord River with Nancy, upstream from Muldoon Park and back. Seemed like a good idea, smaller river close to where we work, but the water was kind of nasty (there were some spots where it positively reeked), and for most of the time we were within earshot of the traffic on I-495. Saw a bunch of wildlife, though.
Sunday Jun 21, 2015 #
2 PM
orienteering race 14:54 [3] ** 2.02 km (7:22 / km) +33m 6:49 / km
spiked:10/10c shoes: Inov-8 Oroc 280 #1 (blue)
Ratlum Mountain summer relay with Nancy. Leg 2, Sprint B course. The only really tiny errors were running a couple of steps past the controls on #5 and #6.
orienteering 16:57 [3] *** 1.81 km (9:22 / km) +67m 7:54 / km
spiked:12/12c shoes: Inov-8 Oroc 280 #1 (blue)
Leg 4, Sprint A, mass start with (I think) Jeff Saeger, Glen Tryson, and Lyn Walker. Went out first and stayed ahead, and almost caught up to Peter Gagarin at the end, having made up two minutes. SA shows me losing 20 seconds on #6, which is a little surprising, and doesn't show me losing any time on #5, though the whole time I was going straight over the hill, I was thinking that I was being dumb and that the trail around the left would have been better. No other troubles.
Ten weekends.
Ten weekends.
Saturday Jun 20, 2015 #
8 AM
hiking (trails) 1:12:12 [1] 3.7 km (19:30 / km) +206m 15:15 / km
shoes: GoLite Blaze Lite
Hike #1: Watatic with Patti and Meghan, up and back on the normal trail. Managed to lose my remote car door opener, which I think was in my watch pocket, but presumably not in deep enough. Fortunately, I keep a spare key hidden on the outside of my car.
hiking (trails) 2:10:00 [1] 7.74 km (16:48 / km) +320m 13:55 / km
shoes: GoLite Blaze Lite
Hike #2: Little Monadnock loop with Nancy. Deducted the time we spent enjoying the view.
Friday Jun 19, 2015 #
paddling (kayak) 1:06:37 [3] 5.54 km (12:01 / km)
On the Merrimack with Nancy. From the Tyngsborough campground up to the NH border and back, just as it was getting dark. We stopped at the turnaround and I took the boat into a drainage pipe that was barely big enough for me to fit if I skoonched down in the seat. I went several boat lengths in, without a light, until I got to a place where it apeared to be opening up into a more cavernous space. Interesting, but I'm sure a lot of my friends would be totally creeped out by the thought of going in there. Very nice night to be out on the water.
Sunday Jun 14, 2015 #
orienteering 56:32 [3] *** 4.9 km (11:32 / km) +180m 9:45 / km
spiked:13/14c shoes: Inov-8 Oroc 350
Nobscot, Green. Kind of tired, and not moving very fast. No big mistakes, maybe a little sloppy here and there, and poor execution on the first half of leg 4, plus I overran the feature by a few steps (the flag was on the side I was approaching from, should have seen it). Otherwise just not a lot of ambition. Forgot the Garmin, so no GPS trace.
Nine consecutive weekends.
Nine consecutive weekends.
Wednesday Jun 10, 2015 #
hiking (pavement) 1:11:06 [3] 6.81 km (10:26 / km)
Walking from work to the sporting goods store on Bridge St. to buy a helmet, then over to the parking garage near Nancy's office where she had left my car.
Sunday Jun 7, 2015 #
11 AM
orienteering race 21:18 [3] ** 3.14 km (6:48 / km) +11m 6:41 / km
spiked:19/21c shoes: Inov-8 Oroc 280 #1 (blue)
Sprint 1 at Historic Beaver Brook. Southern section largely open parkland with scattered bits of forest.
orienteering race 23:20 [2] ** 2.22 km (10:29 / km) +22m 10:00 / km
spiked:14/19c shoes: Inov-8 Oroc 280 #1 (blue)
Sprint-2 at Historic Beaver Brook, on the forested northern section.
This was, to be brief, a couple of not-so-interesting sprints through a poison ivy patch on a somewhat illegible 1:4000 map, with some hidden controls. Doing just the first sprint would have sufficed; at least the open areas were ivy-free. As I was about to start the second one, Kristin was coming back, having looked at the poison ivy on the way to the first control and just quit. Studying the maps at home, my guess is that the maps were color photocopies of inkjet prints, and that in the case of Sprint-2, the inkjet print was made on damp paper so that the ink bled really badly. The buildings all look like they're covered with fur.
Eight consecutive weekends, at least.
This was, to be brief, a couple of not-so-interesting sprints through a poison ivy patch on a somewhat illegible 1:4000 map, with some hidden controls. Doing just the first sprint would have sufficed; at least the open areas were ivy-free. As I was about to start the second one, Kristin was coming back, having looked at the poison ivy on the way to the first control and just quit. Studying the maps at home, my guess is that the maps were color photocopies of inkjet prints, and that in the case of Sprint-2, the inkjet print was made on damp paper so that the ink bled really badly. The buildings all look like they're covered with fur.
Eight consecutive weekends, at least.
Wednesday Jun 3, 2015 #
8 PM
running (woods) 47:28 [3] 5.82 km (8:09 / km) +113m 7:26 / km
shoes: Saucony Grid Adapt
In The Dim, using the last bit of usable twilight by the end. The big disappointment of this was that the new access corridor, which looked so encouraging in the winter, turns out to be a poison ivy ranch. I guess I'll have to go to the ConComm and see if they'll let me go out with a gallon of Roundup and see if I can wither a path through there. A little bit of AOWN up at the north end, when I heard something big scampering away off to my left, which seemed like it might have been a bear. Didn't want to face the ivy on the way back out, so I just went up by the new house lot, where progress is continuing very slowly, despite three piece of equipment on site.